Metlife Inc

NYSE: MET
$71.27
+$0.42 (+0.6%)
Closing Price on June 21, 2024

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Steve Jobs worked at Apple (AAPL) for $1 a year in 2000, just before the launch of the iPod which completely changed the company’s fortunes and made him astonishingly wealthy. Lee Iaccoca worked...
Robert Benmosche has already come under a bit of fire for his pay package as the new head of troubled insurance giant American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG).  But critics demanding immediate...
AIG has already taken in $180 billion of taxpayer money and there is absolutely no reason to believe that most of it will be returned. The insurance company is still losing money and its efforts to...
Reuters:   A plan for universal healthcare in China could cut the savings rate.Reuters:   Bank regulators are opposing the Obama shake-up of the system.Reuters:   Bank of America (BAC) settled...
Troubled insurance and financial giant American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) may have found a new CEO to run the company.  Or dare we say… a new victim! Based upon what the company has...
These are the top Wall Street research calls with analyst upgrades and downgrades early this Tuesday morning: Aetna (AET) Raised to Sell from Conviction Sell List at Goldman Sachs; no real upgrade....
Reuters:   The promise of mobile TV is being destroyed by smartphone use of software applications.Reuters:   More attacks on websites in the West are expected and North Korea is...
Finally, the stress tests are out for the US banking and financial institutions.  Of the banks, 10 of 19 banks need a combined $74 billion of equity.The good news is that a few companies were given...
According to Reuters, lenders will object to the Chrysler Chapter 11 filing. Reuters reports that Switzerland  is asking US a court to halt a case against UBS (UBS). Reuters reports that SMFG will...
According to Reuters, Ebay’s (EBAY) shares are cheap by many measures but investors are avoiding the company, while Amazon’s (AMZN) are so expensive that investors are concerned.Reuters reports...
There is one question that keeps making the rounds after the news of yesterday’s TARP bailout money inclusion being offered to life insurers.  Are these really close to falling into the abyss,...
There is no end to it, this process of bailing out financial institutions. Once the banks were stable, the rest of the sector was supposed to become more solid. That has not worked. Banks are not yet...
A new Reuters poll of economists does not offer much hope for an improvement in the nation’s financial condition. Many see unemployment topping 10%. The news service reports that “Median...
Short sellers may have taken a bath in companies such as  Citigroup (C) and GE (GE), but they increased investments in many companies to record levels.At the end of February, shares sold short in...
GE (GE) Growing concern that financial division will have heavy write-offs. Drops to $6.85 from a 52-week high of $38.52. MetLife (MET) One of many insurance companies being pulled down by AIG...